[Qgis-developer] Field Menu Range settings odd behaviour

Matthias Kuhn matthias at opengis.ch
Mon Nov 21 00:40:11 PST 2016


Hi,

With QGIS 2.16 constraints have been introduced that are able to check
entered values and provide feedback as well as prevent the user from
clicking ok:

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/index.html#feature-constraints-on-widgets

All the best
Matthias

On 11/21/2016 09:18 AM, roy roy wrote:
> Hi:)
> Anybody interest in this issue?
> 
> Il 17/11/2016 11:36, roy roy ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> working with field menu (QGIS 2.14.8 OSGEO4W64) i noted a behaviour that
>> i find misleading and
>>
>> could potentially lead to severe errors in edit session:
>>
>> say that i want to set a range for an integer field with
>>
>> min value 1
>>
>> max value 5
>>
>> step 1
>>
>> at this point i would expect that QGIS only accepts "1 2 3 4 5" and
>> throw an error if i insert 6
>>
>> while editing; infact if i erroneously insert "6" QGIS will not complain
>> and happily save the
>>
>> maximun value for range (i.e 5) i find this odd and a way to defeat the
>> hole pourpose of my
>>
>> setting.
>>
>> I think this is a bug, can anyone confirm? If this is the expected
>> behaviour i think the logic
>>
>> of this tool is flawed because QGIS should not insert values at his own
>> will but should instead warn the
>>
>> user that the value is outside the expected range.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Roy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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